ZSync is an new open source syncing library designed to allow easy syncing of data between an iPhone/iPod Touch and the OS X Desktop. ZSync utilizes the BLIP library and Apple’s Sync Services to allow easy and seamless syncing of data.

It’s now accepted wisdom that no application is an island, and data just wants to be free. So, an important consideration in creating your product is how your users will use it to share. Being able to easily get information out of your application and shared with other people is an important element in your user’s satisfaction. It’s also critically important to your software business. Why? Because word of mouth will be your most important form of marketing and nothing is a better conversation starter than, “How’d you do that?”.

It has taken what feels like forever but I am really pleased to announce that NSConference USA booking is now open.

From today until the end of Black Friday all MDN training videos (including NSConference 2009 session videos and packs) will be HALF PRICE.

On my his blog, Kim Ahlberg provides a sample Xcode project showing how to enable TV output from within iPhone applications, which is very helpful when demoing your app during presentations.

Cocoa developers were treated to a nice Interface Builder makeover in version 3. One effect we’ve all been admiring is dragging an item from the Library palette onto a window. It’s actually not too hard and just takes a little showmanship. In this post Joshua Nozzi shows you how it’s done and provides sample code.

OS X’s API is full of unsung heroes. While everybody knows about Cocoa and Carbon, and is wowed by the new shinies such as Grand Central Dispatch or Core Animation, other components have been silently and solidly plugging away, forming a basic foundation on which the rest of the system can rest. This article is about one such component.

After getting lost in his own world it’s great to have Matt Gemmell back with his unique and invaluable look on the world of software development. John receives his first fan mail, Scotty updates us with NSConference, Atlanta and the two of them share the trials and tribulations of being Mac Developers.

It’s been a little longer than usual but the boys back with The MDN Show episode 12. Scotty and John Fox consider access control and fail safe programming with Graham Lee. Learn how Kevin Hoctor is nice and Tender as he supports his users and listen with respect as Martin Pilkington looks at whats new with accessibility in Snow Leopard.

Need a helping hand with delivering your app? What about managing your development, or how to make your user love your app? Then look no further, for in this episode we hear from Tyler Hall on Shine, Open Source PHP coding for delivering your app; Kevin Hoctor on Lighthouse and Matt Gemmell on working your data.

Web app tools, CoreData on the iPhone, user accessibility, app design….. What more could you possible want from a Mac Developer podcast! Your hosts Scotty and John once again bring their unique humor and style to the show, as they guide us through a plethora of invaluable tips and tricks.

Having taken their eye off the ball in the last show, Scotty and Jon took meditative instruction from Mr Graham Lee to help them re-focus again. With input from Daniel Jalkut helping you pick your product features and another psychedelic trip into The World According to Gemmell, the boys are back!

It’s been a while (again) but the boys (Kevin Hoctor and Danny Greg) are back, this time with segments on NSOutlineView and Drawing

This is a small utility class created by Collin Donnell to make displaying lists of CoreData objects a bit easier. It’s meant to be subclassed so that you can add in your methods for adding, removing, editing, etc.

John and Scotty are back again with a show on the edge as they struggle to hold it together. Fortunately Graham Lee talking security, Martin Pilkington going over voice over and Brian Cooke sharing the results of his experiment of going full time indie ensure they get through it.

In the latest instalment of Art of the Product, Sean Johnson argues that platform choice is one of the most important decisions in a product’s design, and if done right, it’s not a technical decision, it’s a market decision.

URLEncode.framework is a Cocoa framework for shortening URLs via theUrlenco.de service. The framework supports asynchronous operation and can both encode full URLs and expand shortened URLs.

Welcome to the MDN Show episode 7. John is back as he and Scotty discuss vacations, lard, Snow Leopard, Cappuccino and View Controllers as well as occasionally letting a guest get a word in edge ways as Scotty interviews Jonathan Dann about the Objective-C run time and Matt Gemmell reports in with a glimpse into his world

RHLDAPSearch provides an Objective-C wrapper around a simple OpenLDAP query. RHLDAPSearch was compiled and built against OpenLDAP 2.4.16. It was intended to be used on the iPhone, since Apple hasn’t made their LDAP framework public. It is provided under the MIT license.

I am excited (honestly) to announce a new Job Board facility here at MDN.

The MDN Job board gives people seeking full time/ part time/ freelance or intern staff the opportunity to reach thousands of Mac software developers and designers.

A job listing will last for 30 days and will normally cost just $25, however for the next few days you can list any position you may have for FREE (Offer closes on the 14th September 2009).